US Suffers Blow In Seizure Case Over Michael Jackson Glove

By Matthew Heller

Law360, Los Angeles (June 20, 2013, 10:00 PM ET) -- A California judge on Thursday ruled the U.S. government must show it reasonably suspected $32 million in property — including a bejeweled Michael Jackson glove — had been illegally acquired by the son of Equatorial Guinea's president at the time it began a forfeiture action, saying it cannot rely on evidence it has since developed.

U.S. District Judge George H. Wu agreed with the Guinean president’s son, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, that it would be unfair if the U.S. Department of Justice could show probable cause...